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Stuffed and Starved: As Food Riots Break Out Across the Globe, Raj Patel Details "The Hidden Battle for the World Food System" Global food prices have risen dramatically, adding a new level of danger to the crisis of world hunger. In Africa, food riots have swept across the continent, with recent protests in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mauritania and Senegal. In most of West Africa, the price of food has risen by 50 percent—in Sierra Leone, 300 percent. In the United States there has been a 41 percent surge in prices for wheat, corn, rice and other cereals over the past six months. We speak with Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. [includes rush transcript]

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: IWantDemocracyNow

Length: 10:49
Rating: 5.00
Views: 6676

Tags: democracy  food  now  patel  raj  shortage  starvation  

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magikwizzy (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Proud to live in the usa
1warning29 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
all food item shipped to middle east should have a higher price.
yahoopig (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Is it greed or need? I'm not a fatty by the way!
wordhurts (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This is because the investors are too greedy. They will never bring down the commodity price even if the cost of these commodities goes down to earth. Greedy Investors will sooner or later create their own hell!!!!!
dkrustyklown (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Do you contest the fact that the United States produces much more food than it consumes? Because if not, then I do not see why you are replying to me. The United States feeds FAR more people than Germany does, so that is why a German has no place criticizing the US on this matter. Germany is still a vassal of the US, by the way. As long as a US military presence in Germany doesn't require German approval, Germany is a second class state that can't even claim complete sovereignty over itself.
pok81 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
"so take your anti-americanism back to Germany" oh... The Anti-Americansim-Hunter is back... looking for anti-americansim and finding .... nothing actually. Or where exactly has denizzz talked about "America"? Idiotic people like you produce your so-called anti-americanism, nothing else.
dkrustyklown (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
STFU America produces many times more food than it consumes, so take your anti-americanism back to Germany and go suck a dick, krout.
voicefornature (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I believe that a large percentage of this problem stems from the world's over population and the callous attitude of the religious right in the USA. They would rather have babies starve to death than condone or help promote family planning. They are delusional into believing that God would have it this way too. To me this is a ludicrous and negative way of thinking. Prevention is a great and logical solution to our over population epidemic. We have to start now to begin to make a difference.
glamndring (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The freighters full of rice are temporarily lost. Ahh no rice...yet. India and Thailand had boom year in rice 2008. God it must be nice being a NAFTA Pirate aboard the "Condoleeza" oil tanker! Its oils fault and the alchohol farmers-SUCKERS!
ATPADPenergy (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Totally agree with a lot of the comments below. What's needed in the developed world is nothing less than a revolution in how we live - less consumption of inessentials, more green spaces and local urban farming, and to back this up some strong government. What I find disgusting here in London is the amount of food people just put in the bin; they've bought way too much, and most of this organic matter could easily be composted.

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